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Village Photos in Xinjiang, Western China

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These " Village Photos in Xinjiang, Western China " were taken during my 2006 trip to China.

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Uighur woman in front of her yurt



Camel and goats in front of a traditional yurt near Lake Karakul



Uighur woman in front of her Lake Karakul yurt



Uyger woman offering jewelry for sale



Tajik women in front of their yurt at Lake Karakol



Yurts in Tashkurgan meadow in western China



Solar-powered yurt in western China



Traditional animal-skin yurt



Traditional yurts near Lake Karakul



New-style yurts constructed of concrete and painted white



View of meadow and yurts from atop Tashkurgan castle



Mosque near Tashkurgan fort



Tajik Mausoleum in Tashkurgan



Mausoleum near the ruined fort in Tashkurgan



Tajik homes outside of Tashkurgan



Camel and yurts on the shore of Lake Karakol



Camel in Xinjiang



Yak in China



Goats in front of a yurt





Uygur boy on horseback at Karakul Lake



Tajik temple



Village in the remote Kunlun mountains



Mosque on the road to Kusrap village



Aerial view of agricultural fields and villages near Urumqi in western China



Tajik elder



Young Tajik man



Tajik woman sitting on a bench in front of a shuttered window in Tashkurgan



Tajik adobe huts in the Kunlun mountains



Fruit seller in Kusrap



Village below a mountain in Xiniang



Tajik mother and son



Group of Tajiks riding a tractor



Boy on a donkey



Datong village, surrounded by high mountain peaks, partially powered by solar



Central street in Datong



Girl working at a stand near a passport checkpoint on the Karakoram highway



Chinese girl and boy working at a stand near a passport checkpoint on the Karakoram highway



Kyrgyz Boy on horseback



Abandoned government-built town in the desert of western China



Rocky Tajik home near a high elevation grassland



Tajik Muslims in Kusrap



Husband and wife doing house work in Kusrap



Kusrap man



Man with donkey cart filled with sticks



Kids in Kusrap



Husband and wife in Kusrap



Children in Kusrap



Man fixing a window in Kusrap while a woman standing below



Kusrap elder resting



Adobe home



Tajik or Uighur (Uyghur) home along road towards Datong






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